To feel a bit sick(ened) when hearing about certain subjects?

There are occasions when I will not watch the news because of distressing content but not because something has been talked about again. As for the Post Office scandal, I will be happy to hear no more of it once those responsible are serving prison sentences.

Orangina had to show some defference to his boss.
Red carpet,fly past.

Denise have I mentioned my MH issues Welch...now she needs turned off.

I was thinking about this thread and have slightly changed my mind, I am sickened by seeing Putin being so respected and also getting a flypast when other Presidents don't even get that, and his wave and snigger at questions around killing civilians, and I'm also sickened by the miscarriage as mentioned above.

This.

And I am sickened by your use of ‘bleating on’ in this context, OP.

This is a good idea!! Everything on the news depresses me.

I understand the news isn't fun or happy most of the time and I'm quite different I love the news and political commentary but I know that's not the norm and I don't expect everyone to listen and watch to as much as I do from all over the world. However there is always a privilege in being able to completely switch off from the news because the news is proper reality tv, and it's not edited, people are living that and they cannot switch off, so I think it's important to at least stay informed in whatever way suits you without obviously saying you need to constantly subject yourself to horrible broadcasts but information and knowledge is power and we cannot help or advocate for others when we don't know what's happening. I don't think stories make me sickened other than when people have experienced horrible things e.g the recent Massacre in Sudan in a refugee camp or when there's horrible crimes etc. The horizon scandal only starter to be cared about my the public through the ITV drama Mr Bates, which is amazing for showing how different mediums can have an impact but also sad that it took so long and we can see the impact of public interest in them getting more results thought sadly it led to some suicides and also some died before they got justice, so if only people had listened and gained awareness earlier.

’Loose Women’ has to be turned off!!

I think that is perfectly fine. But you aren't starting threads inviting ungracious comments about people and things that do matter to many people. The OP did. Being "sick to death" of hearing about the Post Office scandal - something which led to people literally dying, others imprisoned falsely, being financially ruined etc., etc is just nastiness. And having a go at someone who has raised £millions for research into the disease that killed his friend... words fail me at how nasty that is.

Avoiding news may help some people, but they don't hen go off an make nasty comments about what they haven't heard on it!

I don't watch or read the news at all, because I have a severe anxiety disorder and mild depression. I literally wouldn't be able to get through life if I was watching the news, I don't think. My psychiatrist agrees that I shouldn't watch it

Just throwing that out there for the poster who can't understand why I "turn a blind eye" etc

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are you quite right in the head, OP?

a bit of a grifter? Jeez. I pity you and your outlook on life

TBH I thought the other thread was rather poor taste, and I think this one is in very poor taste bordering on pretty disgusting. If you don't want to see or hear about something, there is an off switch. Being sick of hearing about the suffering of other people says an awful lot about you, and none of it is good.

It sounds like you're actually watching the news as background TV or something?

Good grief. Don't do that. That's just mad.

put some music on or something.

I don't watch news and I haven't heard of this Kevin chap.

All of those things really aren’t going to make a difference. A protest, a letter to an ineffectual MP or charity donation won’t change what’s going on.

I don’t know what will happen me, but I feel
like this about all the news.

The phrasing of all of this doesn't make sense

Weary? Annoyed? Bored?

even if you feel all of those things, the Horizon scandal is absolutely worthy of any coverage that it's getting. But you haven't expressed yourself properly in the first place so.... try again? Third time lucky perhaps.

Sadly you have a point. But I will still try. I believe I can make a difference even if that difference is tiny in the grand scheme of things.

Imagine if everyone who turned the news off did something. A charity donation, a letter to an MP, attended a protest... it's easy to feel helpless as an individual but when individuals stand together, that's when things can change. I don't have much hope of this ever happening but that doesn't mean I'll give up.

I haven’t watched the news for ages now, you do get weary of the same things day in day out.

Still waiting for the other one being
“ bleated on about” OP.

There hasn't been a time you or I have been alive where there hasn't been some kind of human suffering. Unless you're a world leader there's very little you can do. It's perfectly fine if someone wants to turn the news off. It really makes no difference.

I can't watch or read anything about animal abuse, specifically cats.

People’s lives were destroyed by the post office scandal. Just switch off if you’re not interested but using the word “bleating” to describe someone still talking about this horrible miscarriage of justice - well, YABVFU.

I will never understand how anyone can turn a blind eye to human suffering like this. Again, think about how lucky you are to be able to turn it off. I would hate to look back on this period in time knowing I turned away and did nothing.

The only reason I roll my eyes at the post office scandal is how hard they're trying to drag fujitsu into it. Yeah, the software had errors, but it was the post office that refused to consider that, lied to thr victims saying "they were the only ones" that had a discrepancy pop up (when they absolutely weren't), etc. Computer programs get glitches and errors, we all deal with it every day I'm sure at work, that's why we need humans who are on the ball overseeing the use of it and being switched on enough to not let computer programs make decisions for them.

So hearing about it repeatedly does make me sick, because the post office is continuing to shift the blame. Fujitsu has accepted their part with their glitchy program, but the post office is still shying away from appropriate accountability. It's the humans failing at the jobs that caused the problem, not a buggy bit of software.

But besides that, no lol.